SYA 4011 POSTCOLONIAL THEORY Instructor: Professor Percy C. Hintzen SIPA 330 [email protected] 305-348-4419 Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11.00 am – 11.50 am. Place: Charles E. Perry (PC) 443 Office Hours: Wednesday 3.00 – 6.00 pm SIPA 330 Course Description and Objectives The objective of the course is to provide advanced undergraduate students with an introduction to post- colonial theory, its concepts, problems, and debates. The course examines how contemporary global, regional, national, and subnational conditions are influenced and partly determined by the strong legacy of colonialism. The course will focus on theories that examine the relationship among history, society, politics, and economics. The problem posed by the course relates to the persistence of colonial forms after the formal dissolution of Europe’s overseas empires during the latter half of the twentieth century, and particularly after 1947. Notwithstanding the granting of independence, the various campaigns of anti- colonial resistance and challenges at all levels to colonialism, Western influence continues to shape post- colonial formation through the use of economic, military, and political power and ideology. The course will introduce students to discussions about the experiences of various historical and contemporary realities that form the complex of post-colonial thinking. It engages post-colonialism as a continuing process of reconstruction and resistance. It is impossible to examine the post-colonial without taking into account its antecedents and its consequences. And a significant portion of the course will deal with both. The course considers European colonialism as an “historical fact” that has produced diverse material effects everywhere. The imperial force of Europe continues to intrude everywhere, as does the legacy of colonialism in Europe and European settler societies. So post-colonial theory has universal global applications that the course will examine. The course will engage with theories of imperialism and neo- colonialism as aspects of post-colonial thinking. The course will proceed through engagement with selected readings on colonialism, imperialism, neo- colonialism, anti-colonialism, and post-colonialism. The field is an inter-disciplinary one that engages multiple analytical frameworks. COURSE REQUIREMENTS 3 Mid Term Examinations 30% Summary Review Paper 25% Final Examination 25% Class Participation 10% Reading Summaries 10% 1 Grade Assignments A 100 - 93 A Minus 92.9 – 90 B Plus 89.9 – 87 B. 86.9 – 83 B minus 82.9 – 80 C plus 79.9 – 77 C 76.9 - 73 C minus 72.9 - 70 D plus 69.9 - 67 D 66.9 – 63 D minus 62.9 - 60 F 59.0 - 00 Grading Policy and Practice All assignments will be graded out of 100 and weighted according to their assigned value. No late assignment will be accepted nor make up exams graded without a valid excuse related to illness or personal and family emergency or for the accommodation of a religious holiday. Documentation must be presented. Class Attendance Students are expected to be early for class and to attend every class unless their absence is excused because of personal illness, or personal and family emergency or for the accommodation of a religious holiday. Documentation must be provided for an excused absence. After three (3) unexcused absences, five (5) points will be deducted from your Class Participation score. One percentage point will be deducted for each absence after the initial three up to a total of 10 percentage points. These deductions will show up on the marks for class participation. Mid-Term There will be three mid-term examinations. Each exam will count for 10 percent of the grade. Two of the exams will be in-class essays that test familiarity with the reading and one will be a take home examination to test capacity for critical reflection, Final Examination There will be a final examination covering the entire course. Summary Review Paper THIS IS YOUR ONLY PROMPT DUE APRIL 24TH IN CLASS. Students will be required to write a not less than 6 page summary review paper (double spaced 12 font) focused on their understanding of the post-colonial condition. The purpose is to assess your comprehensive understanding of post-colonial theory, post-colonial practice, and post-colonial critique. You can choose a number of approaches: 1. A "literature review of the readings covering what you think are the main points and making references to the authors who make them and who engage in critiques of those who make them. It has to be comprehensive. 2. A case study (country, region, organization, etc.) to highlight critical issues covered in the reading and how the case elucidates or problematizes these issues. 3. A theme from the readings that you explain, analyze and discuss thoroughly. You must make reference to other class readings that may be relevant to the theme. In all three cases, the readings must be covered in a comprehensive way that is relevant to your approach to the paper. 2 Reading Summaries Each student is required to post a two-paragraph synopsis of the week’s readings on Blackboard by Thursday midnight of each week prior. Each student is also required to post a critical question about the readings for class discussion. There will be a one percentage point deduction each time a student fails to submit a reading summary. Class Participation Students will be expected to participate in class discussion. The basis for participation is attendance. Students who do not participate will be given the opportunity to do so by the instructor in the form of answers to questions specifically directed to them. Fridays are reserved for reviews and discussion of the week’s readings. Questions for discussion will be selected from those posed by the students in the week’s reading summaries. Reading and Class Assignments A course-reader will be used that contains all the required readings. It must be purchased from RICOH in Graham Center January 11th. I. Introduction to the Class II. What is Postcolonialism? January13th Reading Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts.” 2nd Ed. Routledge, 2007. “Post-Colonialism/Postcolonialism. Pp. 168-173 “Post-Colonial Reading” Pp. 173-174. “Post-Colonial State.” Pp. 174-175. “Postcolony.” Pp. 175-178. January 15th Class Discussion January 18th Martin Luther King Holiday January 20th Reading Robert C. Young. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Blackwell, 2001. Chapter 1. “Colonialism and the Politics of Postcolonial Critique”. Pp. 1–11 Chapter 5. “Postcolonialism”. Pp. 57-69. January 22nd Discussion January 25th Reading: Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman. Eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader Columbia University Press, 1994. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman “ Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: an Introduction” pp. 1-20 Ch. 8. Aijaz Ahmed. “Orientalism and After.” Pp. 162-171. 3 January 27th Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman. Eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader Columbia University Press, 1994. Part Four: Theorising Post-Coloniality: Intellectuals and Institutions: “Introduction.” Pp. 271-275 Ch. 15. Vijay Mishra and Bob Hodge. “What is Post(-)colonialism? Pp. 276-290 January 29th Discussion III. Colonialism and Resistance February 1st Reading Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman. Eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader Columbia University Press, 1994. Part One: “Theorising Colonised Cultures and Anti-Colonial Resistance” “Introduction.” Pp.23-26 Ch. 1. Leopold Sedar Senghor. “Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century”. Pp. 27-36. Ch. 2. Franz Fanon. “On National Culture”. Pp. 36-52 February 3rd Reading Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman. Eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader Columbia University Press, 1994. Ch. 3. Amilcar Cabral. “National Liberation and Culture”. Pp. 53-65 Ch. 5. Homi Bhabha. “Remembering Fanon: Self, Psyche, and the Colonial Condition.” Pp. 112-123. February 5th Class Discussion IV. Freedom Struggles. February 8th Reading Robert C. Young. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Blackwell 2001. Ch. 12. “The National Liberation Movements: Introduction”. Pp. 161-166 Ch. 13. “Marxism and the National Liberation Movements.” Pp. 167-181. February 10th Reading Robert C. Young. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Blackwell, 2001. Ch. 14. “China, Egypt, Bandung.” Pp. 183-192. Ch. 18. “Africa II. Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism.” Pp. 236-252. February 12th Class Discussion February 15th First in Class Exam. Please Bring a Blue Book V. The Postcolonial Problem February 17th Reading Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman. Eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader Columbia University Press, 1994. Ch. 16. Anne McClintock. “The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term ‘Post-colonialism’” pp. 291-304. Ch. 18. Arjun Appadurai. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” Pp. 324-339 4 February 19th Class Discussion February 22nd Reading Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. Eds. The Case Against the Global Economy. Sierra Club Books. 1996. Chapter 34. Satish Kumar. “Gandhi’s Swadeshi: The Economics of Permanence.” Pp. 418-424. Robert C. Young. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Blackwell, 2001. Ch. 23. “India II. Gandhi’s Counter-modernity.” Pp. 317-334.) VI. The Postcolonial Crisis February 24th Reading Percy C. Hintzen. “After Modernization: Globalization and the African Dilemma” in Modernization as Spectacle in Africa_ Edited by Peter J. Bloom, Stephan F. Miescher, and Takyiwaa Manuh. Indiana University Press, 2014 February 26th Class Discussion Feb 29th Reading Suzanne Bergeron. Ch, 2 “Mapping Modernization and Growth” in Fragments of Development, Nation, Gender and the Space of Modernity. Univ. of Michigan Press, 2006. Pp 30-67 March 2nd Reading Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman. Eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader Columbia University Press, 1994. Ch. 9. Aime Cesaire. “From Discourse on Colonialism”. Pp. 172-180. Ch. 10. Anthony Giddens. “From The Consequences of Modernity.” Pp. 181-189. March 4th Class Discussion March 7th Reading. Achille Mbembe. On the Postcolony. University of California Press, 2001 Ch.